Olympia Brown

“Preach a gospel of life, not a gospel of death.”

“The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women.”

“Our cry is for the ballot, which is the symbol of citizenship in a republic.”

“Old theology taught that woman was the origin of sin... But the new theology... holds that woman was not an inferior creature, but a helpmeet for man.”

“The world can not move forward while one-half of its population is held in subjection.”

“We ask for the ballot for the good of the race. We are not asking for it as a special privilege for ourselves.”

“Let us not forget that the women of the nation are the mothers of the men of the nation, and that what is for the interest of the mothers is for the interest of the sons.”

“Stand by this principle of justice and you will find it the key to all progress.”

“Every argument for the emancipation of the colored man was an argument for the emancipation of women.”

“The principles of our government are inconsistent with the disenfranchisement of women.”

“The cause of woman is the cause of humanity.”

“A minister of the Universalist church, I am here to represent the cause of women, a cause which is the same everywhere.”